Internet users watch television for one hour and 42 minutes a day, compared with the national average of two hours.
IMO, that's not that big of a difference. And it's really sad. Is there really 1 3/4 - 2 hours of TV worth watching *every day*? I don't own a TV tuner of any type. Don't miss it at all. If I did have a TV, I'm afraid I would get a lot closer to that 'national average' than I want. It's just way too easy to veg out. I remember times when I'd look at the clock, and think "What the #$%* have I been doing for the last hour and a half? None of that was worth watching."
If I weren't so lazy, I could list all of the apps that come out-of-the-box with Windows in this post, and it would still be a nice small post. If I tried to list all the apps that come in a Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc. box, it would be one of those massive posts that really annoy me as I'm trying to scroll down the page.
Deleting 4GiB on NTFS *should* be in the range of 1 second, and is on most of the hosts at work (all formatted w/ NTFS). But on the badly fragmented filesystems, it's closer to a quarter of an hour (guesstimate, we did actually time it once, but I forget exactly what it was).
Oh, and moving from one filesystem to another is gonna be a whole ton more ops than deleting a file. It was a single file; a 4 GiB DVD ISO image. Delete op only needs to update the MFT freeing the space that had been used by the file.
I'm actually of the opinion that getting drivers for hardware for Linux is just as easy or easier than for Windows. Just one personal experience, I have a Promise Ultra133TX2 IDE PCI expansion card. I've never had any trouble using it under Linux. When last I installed Windows XP, Windows kept insisting it had a driver for it, but if I used the driver Windows had, Windows would promptly bluescreen upon rebooting. I had to tell the Windows XP install somthing like four or five times that No, I don't want to use your driver, yes, I do want to use the Promise supplied driver from my floppy.
Now, granted there are quite a number of pieces of hardware that don't have very good, or no, Linux drivers, but there's plenty for Windows too. Ever try to get an old parallel port scanner working on Windows XP? No doubt some that do have Windows XP drivers, but the one I tried (don't remember what brand or model, sorry) didn't. The closest I got were some Windows NT drivers, that would install, but didn't work.
I actually have exactly the opposite scenario. At my work, we have a fileserver running MS Windows 2000 Advanced Server, with a 2.4 TiB RAID NTFS filesystem. At home I run Gentoo on my box, w/ UATA/133 IDE drives using ext3fs. It takes slightly less time to _delete_ a 4 GiB file on the fileserver at work, than it took me to _move_ about 5.5 GiB from one drive to another in my box at home. The MFT for the NTFS filesystem on the fileserver at work is very very badly fragmented, drastically killing performance. Now, this is our fault for not keeping it defragmented (well, not mine, as it was already like this when I transferred to this department;), but I've never defragged my box at home either, so...
It should be obvious, but with Microsoft throwing FUD around (if you aren't using AdBlock or such, hit reload on the/. homepage & eventually you'll see some), the suits who actually make the decisions may not see it, despite how obvious it is to you & me.
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Because a space elevator would by nature be very long, and would thus be subjected to a very large torque. The torque on a "60 thousand mile" tall space elevator would be roughly 217,881.7 times greater than the the torque on the Sears Tower ( 1,454 feet tall).
That was actually how Yahoo! got started. A few of college drop-outs started making a webpage linking to their favorite sites... and their friends started going to it, and their friends' friends, and their friends' friends' friends... and then somebody offered to pay them to advertise on the site. And we ended up with this.
I learned this a couple days ago. The "First World" is made of Capitalist/Western countries, the "Second World" is made of Communist/Eastern countries, and "Third World" countries are those that don't fit into either catagory. So North Korea is really a Second World country, not 4th.
Not entirely sure, but I think this is the 'loophole'. Bush says "Federal law prohibits execution of those under 18 when the offense was committed, and I see no reason to change that statue. The Supreme Court will soon consider whether the Constitution requires states to follow a similar rule." So I think this means that for federal offences minors are not subject to the death penalty, but for states unless/until the Supreme Court rules otherwise, each state can decide for itself whether or not to allow the death penalty for minors. The CNN article begins "Nineteen states allow capital punishment for juveniles", so I think that supports this.
Wild guess, (and I haven't tested it at all, but might...) but this could possibly be because War and Peace is no longer protected by copyright. (And is available for free from Project Gutenberg).
Does anybody know if they're using texts from Guternburg for this? It'd be a good combination.
I don't think Google is using PG for this, but PG does use Google for their '"Nearly full text" search (the first 100K or so of.html,.txt,.pdf, etc.)' (see PG's Catalog page.) If you want to search it directly from Google, try using something like
site:gutenberg.net "It was the best of times"
Unfortunatly, while it works, it could be much better...
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That's falling... with STYLE!
Way cool... nice photos in TFA.
127.0.0.1
If I weren't so lazy, I could list all of the apps that come out-of-the-box with Windows in this post, and it would still be a nice small post. If I tried to list all the apps that come in a Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc. box, it would be one of those massive posts that really annoy me as I'm trying to scroll down the page.
Deleting 4GiB on NTFS *should* be in the range of 1 second, and is on most of the hosts at work (all formatted w/ NTFS). But on the badly fragmented filesystems, it's closer to a quarter of an hour (guesstimate, we did actually time it once, but I forget exactly what it was).
Oh, and moving from one filesystem to another is gonna be a whole ton more ops than deleting a file. It was a single file; a 4 GiB DVD ISO image. Delete op only needs to update the MFT freeing the space that had been used by the file.
I'm actually of the opinion that getting drivers for hardware for Linux is just as easy or easier than for Windows. Just one personal experience, I have a Promise Ultra133TX2 IDE PCI expansion card. I've never had any trouble using it under Linux. When last I installed Windows XP, Windows kept insisting it had a driver for it, but if I used the driver Windows had, Windows would promptly bluescreen upon rebooting. I had to tell the Windows XP install somthing like four or five times that No, I don't want to use your driver, yes, I do want to use the Promise supplied driver from my floppy.
Now, granted there are quite a number of pieces of hardware that don't have very good, or no, Linux drivers, but there's plenty for Windows too. Ever try to get an old parallel port scanner working on Windows XP? No doubt some that do have Windows XP drivers, but the one I tried (don't remember what brand or model, sorry) didn't. The closest I got were some Windows NT drivers, that would install, but didn't work.
I actually have exactly the opposite scenario. At my work, we have a fileserver running MS Windows 2000 Advanced Server, with a 2.4 TiB RAID NTFS filesystem. At home I run Gentoo on my box, w/ UATA/133 IDE drives using ext3fs. It takes slightly less time to _delete_ a 4 GiB file on the fileserver at work, than it took me to _move_ about 5.5 GiB from one drive to another in my box at home. The MFT for the NTFS filesystem on the fileserver at work is very very badly fragmented, drastically killing performance. Now, this is our fault for not keeping it defragmented (well, not mine, as it was already like this when I transferred to this department ;), but I've never defragged my box at home either, so...
It should be obvious, but with Microsoft throwing FUD around (if you aren't using AdBlock or such, hit reload on the /. homepage & eventually you'll see some), the suits who actually make the decisions may not see it, despite how obvious it is to you & me.
Heh. If you were really Americanized, you would have spelled it Globalization.
From the country that granted a patent on the wheel? Oh, and FP!
Obsessed? Me? No, I just have a healthy understanding of the importance of...
Because a space elevator would by nature be very long, and would thus be subjected to a very large torque. The torque on a "60 thousand mile" tall space elevator would be roughly 217,881.7 times greater than the the torque on the Sears Tower ( 1,454 feet tall).
That was actually how Yahoo! got started. A few of college drop-outs started making a webpage linking to their favorite sites... and their friends started going to it, and their friends' friends, and their friends' friends' friends... and then somebody offered to pay them to advertise on the site. And we ended up with this.
I was thinking more Passport.com and Hotmail.co.uk
Sounds like a job for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency !
While not one of the litigants, PG was an Amicus curiae (Friend of the Court) in Eldred vs. Ashcroft.
I (and likely many others) would not pay for it. But then, I wouldn't pirate it either.
I learned this a couple days ago. The "First World" is made of Capitalist/Western countries, the "Second World" is made of Communist/Eastern countries, and "Third World" countries are those that don't fit into either catagory. So North Korea is really a Second World country, not 4th.
Not entirely sure, but I think this is the 'loophole'. Bush says "Federal law prohibits execution of those under 18 when the offense was committed, and I see no reason to change that statue. The Supreme Court will soon consider whether the Constitution requires states to follow a similar rule." So I think this means that for federal offences minors are not subject to the death penalty, but for states unless/until the Supreme Court rules otherwise, each state can decide for itself whether or not to allow the death penalty for minors. The CNN article begins "Nineteen states allow capital punishment for juveniles", so I think that supports this.
I dunno, I think they ought to move somewhere even hotter....
Wild guess, (and I haven't tested it at all, but might...) but this could possibly be because War and Peace is no longer protected by copyright. (And is available for free from Project Gutenberg).
Or does the model number just look too much like 'h4xx0r5'?